Cultural relativism and the discourse of intercultural communication: aporias of praxis in the intercultural public sphere

The premise of much intercultural communication pedagogy and research is to educate people from different cultures towards open and transformative positions of mutual understanding and respect. This discourse in the instance of its articulation realises and sustains Intercultural Communication epistemologically – as an academic field of social enquiry, and judgementally – as one which locates itself on a moral terrain. By adopting an ethical stance towards difference, the discourse of intercultural communication finds itself caught in a series of aporias, or performative contradictions, where interculturalists are projected simultaneously into positions of cultural relativism on the one hand and ideological totalism on the other. Such aporias arise because the theoretical premises upon which the discourse relies are problematic. We trace these thematics to a politics of presence operating within the discourse of intercultural communication and links this to questions of judgement and truth in the intercultural public sphere. We propose that the politics of presence be set aside in favour of an intercultural praxis which is oriented to responsibility rather than to truth

Η Δυναμική της Ομάδας Ενηλίκων με Αναπηρία

Στην πρώτη ενότητα εισάγεται και αναλύεται ο ορισμός της ομάδας και η έννοια της Δυναμικής της. Αναφέρονται τα στάδια ανάπτυξης της ομάδας, οι βασικές θεωρίες που διέπουν την Δυναμική της Ομάδας καθώς και οι πτυχές κατανόησής της, Ακολούθως περιγράφονται τα βασικά χαρακτηριστικά του εκπαιδευόμενου ενήλικα με αναπηρία και περιγράφεται ο ρόλος του εκπαιδευτή-συντονιστή ενηλίκων με αναπηρία. Στο τέλος της ενότητας, περιγράφονται δραστηριότητες οι οποίες θα συζητηθούν στις διαλέξει